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- the present invention relates to a primary lithium battery. Specifically, the present invention relates to improvement technology on discharge characteristics of primary lithium batteries in a low-temperature environment.
- a primary lithium battery is provided with an anode having a lithium metal or a lithium alloy as the anode active material, and a cathode having such as manganese dioxide, copper oxide or graphite fluoride as the cathode active material, and is structured to have an electrode body with the cathode and the anode arranged to oppose each other via a separator and is hermetically sealed inside a jacket body such as cell can together with a non-aqueous organic electrolyte.
- a primary lithium battery has a high-energy density as well as a characteristic of being capable of discharging over a long term while allowing a small amount of voltage drop until the last stage of the discharge. And therefore, primary lithium batteries are widely used for the purpose of continuously feeding power for a long term to equipment such as power sources of stationary gas meters and water meters. Additionally, the primary lithium battery has a characteristic of being capable of being stored for a long-term in an unused state.
- the following NPL 1 relates to the present invention and describes various primary lithium batteries having different operating principles and structures.
- the following NPL 2 describes a technology related to the field of the present invention.
- the battery being the power source of the emergency notification system is basically a “single-use” battery.
- the battery being the power source of the emergency notification system is basically a “single-use” battery.
- the battery being the power source of the emergency notification system is basically a “single-use” battery.
- the battery being the power source of the emergency notification system is basically a “single-use” battery.
- the vehicle itself on which the system is mounted is damaged so that the necessity to use a secondary battery which works by repeating charging and discharging is extremely low.
- secondary batteries are expensive compared to primary batteries.
- there is also a need to separately provide a complex electronic circuit such as a charging circuit and a control circuit which prevents overcharging.
- the batteries adopted in emergency notification systems require a discharge capacity which can continuously perform the emergency notification operations until a relief party reaches the spot.
- secondary batteries have small discharge capacities, even secondary lithium batteries having large discharge capacities for a secondary battery have smaller discharge capacities compared to primary lithium batteries. Therefore, there would be many issues when using a secondary battery as the power source of an emergency notification system.
- the present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an objective thereof is to provide a primary lithium battery which can discharge a high current even in a low-temperature environment.
- the main invention in order to achieve the foregoing objective is a primary lithium battery having an electrode body that is arranged with a sheet-like cathode and a sheet-like anode opposing each other via a separator and sealed inside a jacket body together with a non-aqueous organic electrolyte including the cathode being made by applying or compressively bonding to a surface of a sheet-like current collector a cathode material including a cathode active material allowing occlusion of lithium ions, and the anode being made by applying an anode material including a carbon active material allowing occlusion and separation of lithium ions on a one main side face side of a sheet-like current collector having formed holes penetrating from a front to a back, and an anode active material made of a lithium metal or a lithium alloy being affixed to another face side of the current collector.
- Another invention is a primary lithium battery wherein the cathode active material is manganese dioxide.
- FIG. 1A is a diagram illustrating a structure of a primary lithium battery according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 1B is a diagram illustrating a structure of a primary lithium battery according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating the way in which a high discharge current characteristic of the primary lithium battery is measured.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the high discharge current characteristics of the primary lithium battery according to the above described embodiment and the primary lithium battery according to the comparative example.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating internal resistances of the primary lithium battery according to the above described embodiment and the primary lithium battery according to a comparative example.
- FIGS. 1A and 1B are diagrams illustrating structures of a primary lithium battery 1 according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 1A is a diagram illustrating an external view thereof and
- FIG. 1B is a diagram illustrating an internal structure thereof schematically indicating a sectional view taken in the direction of arrows a-a in FIG. 1A .
- a power generating element including a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte sealed inside a jacket body 11 made of a laminated film, and has a structure (hereinafter, also called completely sealed structure) that is made of a positive terminal plate 12 which is connected to the cathode inside for providing electric power to the external load and a negative terminal plate 13 which is connected to the anode inside for providing electric power to the external load, which are on the outside of the jacket body 11 .
- the jacket body 11 contains therein an electrode body 10 made by arranging a sheet-like cathode 20 oppose a sheet-like anode 30 via a separator 40 .
- the cathode 20 is made by applying a slurry cathode material 22 on a sheet-like current collector 21 made of a stainless expanded metal.
- the anode 30 is structured such that a first main face (referred as the front face) 34 side, of the sheet-like anode current collector 31 made of copper foil with numerous holes formed to penetrate from the surface to the back thereof, has applied an anode material 32 including a carbon material (e.g., hard carbon and also called carbon active material in the following) which allows occlusion and separation of lithium ions, and further has a plate-like lithium metal 33 affixed on the other face (referred as the back face) 35 side.
- the electrode body 10 is configured with the anode material 32 side of the anode 30 being arranged to oppose the cathode 20 via the separator 40 .
- the cathode 20 current collector 21 has connected thereto a positive terminal plate 12 and the positive terminal plate 12 is made to extend to the outside of the jacket body 11 .
- the anode 30 current collector 31 has connected thereto the negative terminal plate 13 and a negative terminal plate 13 is made to extend to the outside of the jacket body 11 .
- the carbon active material included in the anode material 32 has lithium ions of lithium metal 33 origin separably occluded.
- the carbon active material together with the lithium metal 33 functions as the anode active material to substantially increase the surface area which contributes to the reduction reaction in the anode. And as a result thereof, a high current discharge is allowed even in a low-temperature environment.
- a sample of the primary lithium battery (also referred as the example) 1 having the above described configuration was made.
- a primary lithium battery of 3.0 volt nominal voltage was obtained with which an outstandingly impact-resistant manganese dioxide lithium battery was made as a sample.
- the procedure for manufacturing the sample is as follows. Firstly, an electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) which becomes the cathode active material, carbon material which becomes the current-carrying material and a fluorinated binder were mixed at a weight percentage ratio of 93:3:4, respectively, and thereafter made into a slurry state using pure water to form the cathode material 22 .
- EMD electrolytic manganese dioxide
- this cathode material 22 was applied and compressively bonded to both faces of the cathode current collector 21 made of expanded metal to make the cathode 20 . Further, the positive terminal plate 12 was connected to the cathode current collector 21 such as by welding.
- carbon active material allowing occlusion and separation of lithium ions, conductive additives and a binder were mixed at a ratio of 90%, 5% and 5%, respectively, and made into a slurry state as the anode material 32 and this anode material 32 was applied to the front face 34 of the anode current collector 31 . Further a plate-like lithium metal 33 was affixed to the back face 35 of the anode current collector 31 . Furthermore, the negative terminal plate 13 was connected to the anode current collector 31 by welding and the like.
- the anode materials 32 including carbon active materials with average particle diameters of 10 ⁇ m and 20 ⁇ m were respectively prepared and the anode material 32 including carbon active materials with different average particle diameters were applied to the front side 34 of the anode current collector 31 according to the samples.
- the anode material 32 side of the anode 30 was made to oppose the cathode 20 via a separator 40 made of polyethylene microporous film to be layered and form the electrode body 10 .
- the electrode body 10 together with an electrolytic solution were contained inside the jacket body 11 which was made from an aluminum laminated film and had the outer edges of the jacket body 11 sealed with the positive terminal plate 12 and the negative terminal plate 13 in states protruding out from the jacket body 11 to achieve the sample.
- the electrolytic solution which was used had LiCF 3 SO 4 as the supporting electrolyte salt dissolved in a non-aqueous solution including ethylene carbonate (EC) and propylene carbonate (PC) being cyclic carbonates, 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME) being chain ether mixed at a ratio of 20 wt %, 20 wt % and 60 wt %, respectively, so to achieve a concentration of 0.8M.
- EC ethylene carbonate
- PC propylene carbonate
- DME 1,2-dimethoxyethane
- FIG. 3 illustrates the results obtained from the pulse discharge test.
- samples A and B are primary lithium batteries 1 according to the present embodiment where sample A uses carbon active material with an average diameter of 20 ⁇ m and sample B uses carbon active material with an average diameter of 10 ⁇ m as the anode material 32 of the anode 30 .
- Sample C is the primary lithium battery of the sample for comparison.
- FIG. 3 illustrates relative values used to indicate the voltage difference AV at each cycle of the samples A, B and C respectively with the voltage difference AV of the sample for comparison in each cycle set as 100%.
- the samples A and B which correspond to the primary lithium battery 1 according to the present embodiment have all the voltage differences ⁇ V falling below the voltage difference AV of the primary lithium battery according to the sample for comparison (sample C).
- sample B using carbon active material with a small average particle diameter and a large surface area, was superior to sample A in terms of a high discharge performance in a low-temperature environment.
- the internal resistances IR in a low-temperature environment of 20 degrees centigrade below zero of each of the samples A to C were measured by the (1 KHz frequency) alternating-current method.
- FIG. 4 shows the internal resistances IR of each sample.
- FIG. 4 indicates the internal resistances IR of samples A and B using the relative value with respect to the internal resistance IR of sample C set as 100%.
- the internal resistances IR of samples A and B being primary lithium batteries 1 according to the present embodiment were not greater than 60% of that of sample C being the primary lithium battery according to the sample for comparison.
- the internal resistances IR of samples A and B did not differ much but the internal resistance IR of sample B with the anode active material with a small average particle diameter was slightly lower.
- the primary lithium battery according to the sample for comparison (sample C) having substantially the same configuration as the conventional primary lithium battery apparently showed deterioration in the high current discharge characteristics and increase in the internal resistance due to decline in the drift speed of lithium ions at low-temperature.
- the primary lithium battery 1 according to the present embodiment allowed high current discharge at low temperature by compensating the drop in the drift speed of loads (lithium ions) at a low temperature with the amount of lithium ions occluded to the carbon material which is considered to easily allow the lithium ions to be released from the carbon material with a large surface area and also suppress the increase of the internal resistance.
- the present invention is not to be limited to the above described embodiments as long as it is within the gist of the present invention.
- the types of the cathode active material and the composition of the electrolytic solution can adopt those similar to the conventional primary lithium batteries.
- the structure of the primary lithium battery is also not limited to the above described completely sealed type and may be a well known coin type, inside out type, spiral type and the like where the jacket body also serves as the electrode terminals. An appropriate structure or configuration may be adopted according to use.
- the present invention is appropriate as, for example, a power source of an emergency notification system and the like of vehicles.
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- The present invention relates to a primary lithium battery. Specifically, the present invention relates to improvement technology on discharge characteristics of primary lithium batteries in a low-temperature environment.
- A primary lithium battery is provided with an anode having a lithium metal or a lithium alloy as the anode active material, and a cathode having such as manganese dioxide, copper oxide or graphite fluoride as the cathode active material, and is structured to have an electrode body with the cathode and the anode arranged to oppose each other via a separator and is hermetically sealed inside a jacket body such as cell can together with a non-aqueous organic electrolyte.
- A primary lithium battery has a high-energy density as well as a characteristic of being capable of discharging over a long term while allowing a small amount of voltage drop until the last stage of the discharge. And therefore, primary lithium batteries are widely used for the purpose of continuously feeding power for a long term to equipment such as power sources of stationary gas meters and water meters. Additionally, the primary lithium battery has a characteristic of being capable of being stored for a long-term in an unused state. The following
NPL 1 relates to the present invention and describes various primary lithium batteries having different operating principles and structures. The following NPL 2 describes a technology related to the field of the present invention. - [NPL 1] FDK Corporation, “Lithium battery”, [online], [searched Sep. 7, 2013], Internet
- <URL:http//www.fdk.co.jp/battery/lithium/index.html>
- [NPL 2] MarkLines Co., Ltd., ‘Market & Technology “In Europe, eCall, an Automatic Emergency Call Service, will Begin Full-Scale in 2009”’, [online], [searched Sep. 7, 2013], Internet
- <URL:http//www.marklines.com/ja/report/rep355_200503>
- In the recent years, when some kind of condition is met in an electronical device using a battery as the power source, such as being subject to an external impact, during a long term normal operation, an operation different from the normal operation would take place as an emergency operation which requires carrying of a high current. For example, as in the automatic emergency call service of a vehicle described in above NPL 2, when monitoring of signals from the sensor to detect impacts and the like is performed continuously during a long term normal running condition, and there is met a condition of such as determining an occurrence of an accident which activates an airbag and the like, information such as location information useful for emergency life-savings is sent via a mobile communication network to a predetermined point of contact (such as a police department, a fire station, automobile dealer support center and the like).
- As is well known, mobile communication devices such as mobile phones require bulk power, that is, high current when transmitting and receiving voice and data. Furthermore, an emergency notification system is required to certainly operate in any environment where the place of an accident should occur. For example, there may be a case where the system is required to operate at extremely cold places such as regions of high latitudes where the temperature drops to several tens of degrees below zero during the winter season. However, conventional primary lithium batteries are appropriate for power sources operating in normal operating conditions but are not equipped with a feature to discharge high currents in a low-temperature environment.
- Additionally, the battery being the power source of the emergency notification system is basically a “single-use” battery. At the time when the system operates, there is a high possibility that the vehicle itself on which the system is mounted is damaged so that the necessity to use a secondary battery which works by repeating charging and discharging is extremely low. Further, secondary batteries are expensive compared to primary batteries. And there is also a need to separately provide a complex electronic circuit such as a charging circuit and a control circuit which prevents overcharging.
- Further, the batteries adopted in emergency notification systems require a discharge capacity which can continuously perform the emergency notification operations until a relief party reaches the spot. However, since secondary batteries have small discharge capacities, even secondary lithium batteries having large discharge capacities for a secondary battery have smaller discharge capacities compared to primary lithium batteries. Therefore, there would be many issues when using a secondary battery as the power source of an emergency notification system.
- The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an objective thereof is to provide a primary lithium battery which can discharge a high current even in a low-temperature environment.
- The main invention in order to achieve the foregoing objective is a primary lithium battery having an electrode body that is arranged with a sheet-like cathode and a sheet-like anode opposing each other via a separator and sealed inside a jacket body together with a non-aqueous organic electrolyte including the cathode being made by applying or compressively bonding to a surface of a sheet-like current collector a cathode material including a cathode active material allowing occlusion of lithium ions, and the anode being made by applying an anode material including a carbon active material allowing occlusion and separation of lithium ions on a one main side face side of a sheet-like current collector having formed holes penetrating from a front to a back, and an anode active material made of a lithium metal or a lithium alloy being affixed to another face side of the current collector. Another invention is a primary lithium battery wherein the cathode active material is manganese dioxide.
- According to a primary lithium battery of the present invention, a high current discharge is possible even in a low-temperature environment. The other effects will be made clear in the following description.
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FIG. 1A is a diagram illustrating a structure of a primary lithium battery according to one embodiment of the present invention. -
FIG. 1B is a diagram illustrating a structure of a primary lithium battery according to one embodiment of the present invention. -
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating the way in which a high discharge current characteristic of the primary lithium battery is measured. -
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the high discharge current characteristics of the primary lithium battery according to the above described embodiment and the primary lithium battery according to the comparative example. -
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating internal resistances of the primary lithium battery according to the above described embodiment and the primary lithium battery according to a comparative example. - The present application claims priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2013-202124 filed on Sep. 27, 2013, which is herein incorporated by reference.
- Description of an embodiment of the present invention will be given in the following with reference to the attached drawings. And in the drawings referred in the following description, same reference signs are attached to the same or similar parts and duplicate explanations thereof will be omitted.
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FIGS. 1A and 1B are diagrams illustrating structures of aprimary lithium battery 1 according to one embodiment of the present invention.FIG. 1A is a diagram illustrating an external view thereof andFIG. 1B is a diagram illustrating an internal structure thereof schematically indicating a sectional view taken in the direction of arrows a-a inFIG. 1A . The exemplifiedprimary lithium battery 1 illustrated inFIG. 1A has a power generating element including a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte sealed inside ajacket body 11 made of a laminated film, and has a structure (hereinafter, also called completely sealed structure) that is made of apositive terminal plate 12 which is connected to the cathode inside for providing electric power to the external load and anegative terminal plate 13 which is connected to the anode inside for providing electric power to the external load, which are on the outside of thejacket body 11. - As illustrated in
FIG. 1B , thejacket body 11 contains therein anelectrode body 10 made by arranging a sheet-like cathode 20 oppose a sheet-like anode 30 via aseparator 40. In this example, thecathode 20 is made by applying aslurry cathode material 22 on a sheet-likecurrent collector 21 made of a stainless expanded metal. Meanwhile, theanode 30 is structured such that a first main face (referred as the front face) 34 side, of the sheet-like anodecurrent collector 31 made of copper foil with numerous holes formed to penetrate from the surface to the back thereof, has applied ananode material 32 including a carbon material (e.g., hard carbon and also called carbon active material in the following) which allows occlusion and separation of lithium ions, and further has a plate-like lithium metal 33 affixed on the other face (referred as the back face) 35 side. And theelectrode body 10 is configured with theanode material 32 side of theanode 30 being arranged to oppose thecathode 20 via theseparator 40. Here, thecathode 20current collector 21 has connected thereto apositive terminal plate 12 and thepositive terminal plate 12 is made to extend to the outside of thejacket body 11. Further, theanode 30current collector 31 has connected thereto thenegative terminal plate 13 and anegative terminal plate 13 is made to extend to the outside of thejacket body 11. - In the primary lithium battery with the above described structure, the carbon active material included in the
anode material 32 has lithium ions oflithium metal 33 origin separably occluded. Hereby, the carbon active material together with thelithium metal 33 functions as the anode active material to substantially increase the surface area which contributes to the reduction reaction in the anode. And as a result thereof, a high current discharge is allowed even in a low-temperature environment. - In order to confirm the performance of the
primary lithium battery 1 according to the above described embodiment, a sample of the primary lithium battery (also referred as the example) 1 having the above described configuration was made. In this way, among various primary lithium batteries, a primary lithium battery of 3.0 volt nominal voltage was obtained with which an outstandingly impact-resistant manganese dioxide lithium battery was made as a sample. The procedure for manufacturing the sample is as follows. Firstly, an electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) which becomes the cathode active material, carbon material which becomes the current-carrying material and a fluorinated binder were mixed at a weight percentage ratio of 93:3:4, respectively, and thereafter made into a slurry state using pure water to form thecathode material 22. Then thiscathode material 22 was applied and compressively bonded to both faces of the cathodecurrent collector 21 made of expanded metal to make thecathode 20. Further, the positiveterminal plate 12 was connected to the cathodecurrent collector 21 such as by welding. - With respect to the
anode 30 side, carbon active material allowing occlusion and separation of lithium ions, conductive additives and a binder were mixed at a ratio of 90%, 5% and 5%, respectively, and made into a slurry state as theanode material 32 and thisanode material 32 was applied to thefront face 34 of the anodecurrent collector 31. Further a plate-like lithium metal 33 was affixed to theback face 35 of the anodecurrent collector 31. Furthermore, thenegative terminal plate 13 was connected to the anodecurrent collector 31 by welding and the like. Here, theanode materials 32 including carbon active materials with average particle diameters of 10 μm and 20 μm were respectively prepared and theanode material 32 including carbon active materials with different average particle diameters were applied to thefront side 34 of the anodecurrent collector 31 according to the samples. - After vacuum drying the
cathode 20 and theanode 30 which were made with the procedure described above, theanode material 32 side of theanode 30 was made to oppose thecathode 20 via aseparator 40 made of polyethylene microporous film to be layered and form theelectrode body 10. Then theelectrode body 10 together with an electrolytic solution were contained inside thejacket body 11 which was made from an aluminum laminated film and had the outer edges of thejacket body 11 sealed with the positiveterminal plate 12 and thenegative terminal plate 13 in states protruding out from thejacket body 11 to achieve the sample. The electrolytic solution which was used had LiCF3SO4 as the supporting electrolyte salt dissolved in a non-aqueous solution including ethylene carbonate (EC) and propylene carbonate (PC) being cyclic carbonates, 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME) being chain ether mixed at a ratio of 20 wt %, 20 wt % and 60 wt %, respectively, so to achieve a concentration of 0.8M. - Further, as samples for comparison with the above mentioned sample of the
primary lithium battery 1 according to the present embodiment, there were made primary lithium batteries whose structures and configurations which are similar to theprimary lithium battery 1 according to the present embodiment, except that carbon material was not used for the anode and just had a lithium metal affixed on the front side of the sheet-like copper foil used for the anode. - Studies on the high current discharge characteristics in a low-temperature environment were conducted on the sample of the
primary lithium battery 1 according to the above described embodiment and samples of the primary lithium batteries for comparison by performing low load pulse discharge tests in an environment where the temperature was kept at 20 degrees centigrade below zero. The pulse discharge test was performed by connecting a load to theprimary lithium battery 1 according to the present embodiment and the primary lithium batteries according to the samples for comparison and three successive cycles, each cycle operating to include one second of discharge followed by a rest of the discharge for five seconds, were performed with a 100 mA current. And as shown inFIG. 2 , the open circuit voltage V1 before applying a load in each cycle and the minimum value V2 of the closed circuit voltage while a load is applied in each cycle were measured so to obtain the test result being the difference ΔV=(V1−V2). -
FIG. 3 illustrates the results obtained from the pulse discharge test. In thisFIG. 3 , samples A and B areprimary lithium batteries 1 according to the present embodiment where sample A uses carbon active material with an average diameter of 20 μm and sample B uses carbon active material with an average diameter of 10 μm as theanode material 32 of theanode 30. Sample C is the primary lithium battery of the sample for comparison.FIG. 3 illustrates relative values used to indicate the voltage difference AV at each cycle of the samples A, B and C respectively with the voltage difference AV of the sample for comparison in each cycle set as 100%. And the samples A and B which correspond to theprimary lithium battery 1 according to the present embodiment have all the voltage differences ΔV falling below the voltage difference AV of the primary lithium battery according to the sample for comparison (sample C). In other words, it was confirmed that a voltage drop would not occur even when a high current discharge is performed in a low-temperature environment. When comparing samples A and B, sample B using carbon active material with a small average particle diameter and a large surface area, was superior to sample A in terms of a high discharge performance in a low-temperature environment. - The internal resistances IR in a low-temperature environment of 20 degrees centigrade below zero of each of the samples A to C were measured by the (1 KHz frequency) alternating-current method.
FIG. 4 shows the internal resistances IR of each sample.FIG. 4 indicates the internal resistances IR of samples A and B using the relative value with respect to the internal resistance IR of sample C set as 100%. As indicated in the figure, the internal resistances IR of samples A and B beingprimary lithium batteries 1 according to the present embodiment were not greater than 60% of that of sample C being the primary lithium battery according to the sample for comparison. Further, the internal resistances IR of samples A and B did not differ much but the internal resistance IR of sample B with the anode active material with a small average particle diameter was slightly lower. - From the above results, the primary lithium battery according to the sample for comparison (sample C) having substantially the same configuration as the conventional primary lithium battery apparently showed deterioration in the high current discharge characteristics and increase in the internal resistance due to decline in the drift speed of lithium ions at low-temperature. And the
primary lithium battery 1 according to the present embodiment allowed high current discharge at low temperature by compensating the drop in the drift speed of loads (lithium ions) at a low temperature with the amount of lithium ions occluded to the carbon material which is considered to easily allow the lithium ions to be released from the carbon material with a large surface area and also suppress the increase of the internal resistance. - It is a matter of course that the present invention is not to be limited to the above described embodiments as long as it is within the gist of the present invention. For example, the types of the cathode active material and the composition of the electrolytic solution can adopt those similar to the conventional primary lithium batteries. The structure of the primary lithium battery is also not limited to the above described completely sealed type and may be a well known coin type, inside out type, spiral type and the like where the jacket body also serves as the electrode terminals. An appropriate structure or configuration may be adopted according to use. It will do as long as there is arranged a carbon material allowing occlusion and separation of lithium ions on one face of the electrode body with holes penetrating from the surface to the back thereof, and there is included an anode structure having a lithium metal or a lithium alloy being the source of lithium ions arranged on the other face.
- The present invention is appropriate as, for example, a power source of an emergency notification system and the like of vehicles.
- 1 primary lithium battery, 10 electrode body, 11 jacket body, 12 positive terminal plate, 13 negative terminal plate, 20 cathode, 21 cathode current collector, 22 cathode material, 30 anode, 31 anode current collector, 32 anode material, 33 lithium metal, 40 separator
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